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Hilary Benn City Hall

Cladding leaseholders must unite … and get MPs to attend Hilary Benn’s debate on February 12

Category: Cladding scandal, Latest News, NewsTag: Cladding scandal, Grenfell cladding, Hilary Benn MP, London City Hall, Waking watch contracts

If freeholders can’t pay to remediate ‘their’ buildings, they should lose the freeholds and the income streams that come with them

Category: HomeSlider, Latest News, NewsTag: Sir Ken Knight

More than 20,000 leaseholders benefit from CMA action over ground rent mis-selling

Category: Competition and Markets Authority / OFT, Ground rent scandal, HomeSlider, Latest News, News, Persimmon, Sir Peter Bottomley, Slider Posts, Taylor WimpeyTag: Bovis Homes, CMA, Competition and Markets Authority, Countryside Properties plc, Crest Nicholson, Galliford Try, Ground rents, Linden Homes, Miller Homes, Redrow, Taylor Wimpey, Tchenguiz Family Trust, Vistry, Wallace Partnership Group

The Building Safety Bill: what do the government’s amendments mean for leaseholders?

Category: Cladding scandal, HomeSlider, Latest News, Liam Spender, News, ParliamentTag: Building Safety Bill

Sun shines on the leaseholders’ demo at Parliament: after Jenrick, is this a new dawn?

Category: Cladding scandal, HomeSlider, Latest News, News, NewsSliderTag: Baroness Kath Pinnock, Bishop of St Albans, Cladding scandal, Daisy Cooper MP, Ian Duncan Smith MP, Justin Madders MP, Lucy Powell MP, Mike Amesbury MP, Sadiq Khan, Sarah Jones MP, Sir Peter Bottomley, Stephen McPartland MP

Do NOT buy a new property with ground rents

Category: Ground rent scandal, HomeSlider, Latest News, NewsTag: Barratt, Ground rents, Strawberry Star

Keep freeholders

Report from Tchenguiz Family Trust, Long Harbour and Wallace Estates seeks to side-line leasehold reforms by fear-mongering over fire safety

Category: ARHM, ARMA, Competition and Markets Authority / OFT, HomeSlider, IRPM, Latest News, Law Commission, News, TchenguizTag: ARHM, ARMA, Building safety reform, Cirrus, CK Hutchison Holdings, Communities Select Committee, Competition and Markets Authority, Count Luca Rinaldo Contardo Padulli, Crosby Textor, Hutchison Whampoa, Ipsos MORI, IRPM, John Christodoulou, Law Commission, Li Ka-shing, Long Harbour, National Leasehold Campaign, Pagefield, RICS, Tchenguiz Family Trust, Vincent Tchenguiz, Wallace Partnership Group, William Waldorf Astor, Yianis Group

Radius scandal Taylor Wimpey

Radius leaseholders rumble Taylor Wimpey for trying to flog off freehold to property punters …

Category: HomeSlider, Latest News, News, Taylor WimpeyTag: Anthony James Kaye, Auster Limited, Peter Fabian Bloom, Radius, Right of first refusal, Taylor Wimpey London

Robert Jenrick Richard Desmond

Has Jenrick been saved by the Cummings furore for rushing through approval of 1,500 home Docklands scheme that would have handed £40m to former publisher Richard Desmond?

Category: HomeSlider, Latest News, News, Parliament, PressTag: Andrew Wood, Dominic Cummings, Richard Desmond, Robert Jenrick, Tower Hamlets, Westferry Printworks

Sir Bob Neill Grenfeel cladding

Sir Bob Neill becomes cladding chair at APPG

Category: Cladding scandal, HomeSlider, Latest News, MPs' APPG on leasehold, News, ParliamentTag: APPG, Sir Bob Neill MP

Get commonhold done, London Assembly tells government

Category: Commonhold, HomeSlider, Latest News, London Assembly, NewsTag: Andrew Boff, CMA, Commonhold, Communities Select Committee, Competition and Markets Authority, Covid-19, Harry Scoffin, Leonie Cooper, London Assembly, London City Hall, London mayor, Martin Boyd, MHCLG, Nicky Gavron, Open Data Institute, Sadiq Khan, Sebastian O’Kelly, Sian Berry, Tony Devenish, Unmesh Desai

LKP vindicated by devastating CMA report into mis-selling of leasehold homes

Category: Competition and Markets Authority / OFT, Ground rent scandal, HomeSlider, Latest News, NewsTag: Countryside Properties plc

cladding scandal demo

Cladding scandal Westminster demo, February 25: three mayors, 27 MPs, 300 leaseholders, a swarm of media …

Category: Cladding scandal, HomeSlider, Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: Andy Burnham, Apsana Begum MP, Dr Matthew Offord MP, Fran Reddington, Hilary Benn MP, John Healey MP, Justin Madders MP, Lucy Powell MP, Manchester Cladiators, Matthew Pennycook MP, Paul Dennett, Ritu Saha, Rupa Huq MP, Sadiq Khan, Sam Tarry MP, Sir Peter Bottomley, Tom Copley, UKCAG

fatcat freeholders

Fatcat freeholders SHAMED by MHCLG for having no plan to remove Grenfell cladding from their buildings include Long Harbour and James Tuttiett

Category: Cladding scandal, HomeSlider, Latest News, News, William Waldorf AstorTag: James Tuttiett, Long Harbour, Richard Silva, Waking watch contracts

The Times Spread

The Times reports that families ‘lost £3 billion’ on resale of leasehold retirement flats, while developers and freehold speculators made millions

Category: HomeSlider, Latest News, News, Press, RetirementTag: Churchill Retirement Living, Clinton McCarthy, Clive Fenton, John McCarthy, John Tonkiss, McCarthy and Stone, Spencer McCarthy, Tchenguiz Family Trust, The Times, Vincent Tchenguiz, William Waldorf Astor

Ruling blasts Israel Moskovitz’s lawyers for ‘wasting tribunal time’ in legal warfare that is ‘part of a pattern’, as RTM gains control of £69,000 funds

Category: HomeSlider, Israel Moskovitz, Justin Bates, Latest News, NewsTag: 25% rule, Harry Scoffin, Israel Moskovitz, Judge Nicholas Nicol, Justin Bates, Mixed-use sites, Reserve fund, Right to manage, Y and Y Management

Long Harbour hits reverse on forfeiture to £800,000 flat over £400 ground rent … and JB Leitch halves its legal bill

Category: Advice Case Study Disasters, HomeSlider, JB Leitch, Latest News, News, Sir Peter Bottomley, William Waldorf AstorTag: Bank of China, JB Leitch, Long Harbour, Nautilus House, Sir Peter Bottomley, Will Astor

Freehold for Elan Homes leasehold house doubles in price to £15,900 four months after being sold to Landmark Investments

Category: Ground rent scandal, HomeSlider, Latest News, Louie Burns, NewsTag: Dame Louise Ellman MP, Elan Homes, James Brokenshire MP, John Kendrick, Landmark Investments, Mark Hawthorn, Mark Hawthornthwaite

Ground Rent Addicts Anonymous sign Brokenshire’s pledge (three years after the scandal they created and denied existed)

Category: HomeSlider, Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: James Brokenshire MP

Taxpayer boost for offshore speculators as Help To Buy lands 17,000 home buyers in leasehold

Category: Communities Select Committee, HomeSlider, Latest News, News, PressTag: Communities Select Committee, Daily Mail

Lawyers to Communities Select Committee: Stop ‘sticking plaster reforms’. End ‘draconian’ forfeiture. £10 ground rents a ‘mistake’. Make legal costs fair to leaseholders. Commonhold failed because developers make money out of leasehold …

Category: Commonhold, Communities Select Committee, Forfeiture, HomeSlider, Latest News, Law Commission, NewsTag: Amanda Gourlay, Anthony Gold Solicitors, Communities Select Committee, Giles Peaker, Guy Fetherstonhaugh QC

Officials fail to stop LKP publishing legal opinions on flawed reform of Recognised Tenants’ Associations (RTAs)

Category: HomeSlider, Latest News, News, Recognised Tenants' Association, West India QuayTag: James Brokenshire MP, Justin Bates, Law Commission, Lord Young of Cookham, Martin Boyd, MHCLG, Rebecca Cattermole, Sir Peter Bottomley

Can the Leasehold Advisory Service monopoly survive devastating questioning by Select Committee?

Category: Communities Select Committee, HomeSlider, Jim Fitzpatrick MP, Latest News, LEASE, News, ParliamentTag: Anthony Essien, Clive Betts MP, Communities Select Committee, Helen Hayes MP, Jim Fitzpatrick MP, Joanne Darbyshire, Katie Kendrick, LEASE, Leasehold Advisory Service, Martin Boyd, National Leasehold Campaign, Sir Peter Bottomley, Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi MP, Teresa Pearce MP

Communities Select Committee lifts the lid on the residential freehold racket

Category: Communities Select Committee, Fleecehold, Ground rent scandal, HomeSlider, Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: Bellway, British Property Federation, Clive Betts MP, Communities Select Community, Countryside Properties plc, David Jenkinson, Ground rent, Jason Honeyman, Jennie Daly, John Dyer, Long Harbour, Mick Platt, Persimmon, Redrow, Richard Silva, Taylor Wimpey, Wallace Partnership Group

Sean Mulryan’s Ballymore won’t be doing the ‘decent thing’ over Grenfell cladding costs at New Providence Wharf

Category: Cladding scandal, HomeSlider, Jim Fitzpatrick MP, Latest News, NewsTag: Ballymore, Ballymore Asset Management, David Pearson, Grenfell cladding, Jim Fitzpatrick MP, John Mulryan, Landor Residential Limited, New Providence Wharf, Sean Mulryan

forfeiture by neighbour

Neighbour forfeits leaseholder’s £600,000 London maisonette for putting in a new bathroom

Category: Advice Case Study Disasters, Forfeiture, HomeSlider, Latest News, News, NewsSlider, PressTag: Charles McCadden, Forfeiture

Slough council takes Nova House leaseholders to tribunal over Grenfell cladding costs

Category: Cladding scandal, HomeSlider, JB Leitch, Latest News, NewsTag: JB Leitch, Martin Boyd, Nova House, Robert Steinhouse, Slough Council

McCarthy and Stone and Churchill: are you blackmailing government over the ground rent ban and is your business model broken? Asks BBC R4 MoneyBox

Category: Ground rent scandal, HomeSlider, Latest News, McCarthy and Stone, News, PressTag: BBC R4 MoneyBox, Churchill Retirement Living, McCarthy and Stone

McCarthy and Stone: Ground rents are not the future of retirement housing

Category: Ground rent scandal, HomeSlider, Latest News, News, Press, RetirementTag: McCarthy and Stone, Retirement

RICS fines Warwick Estates £20,000 over lift shaft fatality – after ARMA ‘blocked its regulator from hearing the case’

Category: ARMA, HomeSlider, Latest News, News, Warwick EstatesTag: ARMA, Craig Stevens, Marsden House, RICS, RICS disciplinary panel, Sally Keeble, Warwick Estates

National Trust abandons ground rent rises of up to £8,000 a year for its rural leaseholders

Category: HomeSlider, Latest News, NewsTag: National Trust

Onslow Square forfeiture

Wellcome Trust spends £114,000 on lawyers to defeat Onslow Square leaseholder in £6,000 dispute

Category: Advice Case Study Disasters, HomeSlider, Latest News, News, NewsSliderTag: Eliza Manningham-Buller, Knight Frank, Onslow Square, Urang, Wellcome Trust

Persimmon sleaze

Persimmon sold leasehold houses for £50,000 more than same-size freehold houses at Harrow View West

Category: HomeSlider, Latest News, News, NewsSlider, PersimmonTag: BBC North, Harrow View West, Jeffrey Fairburn, Persimmon

Will Heysmoor Heights leaseholders lose their homes to anonymous offshore freeholder if they cannot pay Grenfell bills?

Category: Cladding scandal, HomeSlider, Latest News, News, William Waldorf AstorTag: Abacus Land 4 Limited, Adrian Flook, Citiscape, Crosby Textor, Grenfell cladding, Heysmoor Heights, Homeground Management Limited, Long Harbour, Louise Ellman MP, Tchenguiz Family Trust, Will Astor

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